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The Hershey Bears downed the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, 4-1 Wednesday night at the Giant Center in Hershey, PA. Alex Limoges opened the scoring for the Bears with his 9th goal of the season, Ethen Frank posted his 14th tally of the season, Joe Snively added a power play marker and Pierrick Dube added an empty net goal in the win . The victory improves the Bears record to 25-6-0 on the season.
LINEUP
Hunter Shepard (13-2-0-1, 2.36 GAA, .906 sv%) got the start between the pipes for the Bears. Magnus Hellberg (5-4-0-0, 2.80 GAA, .910 sv%) got the start in goal for the visiting Penguins. The forward lines and defensive pairs for the Bears:
Joe Snively – Mike Sgarbossa – Ethen Frank
Alex Limoges – Jimmy Huntington – Pierrick Dube
Mike Vecchione – Garrett Roe – Bogdan Trineyev
Matthew Strome – Riley Sutter – Henrik Rybinski
Aaron Ness – Dylan McIlrath
Lucas Johansen – Vincent Iorio
Hardy Haman Aktell – Chase Priskie
Hunter Shepard
Clay Stevenson
Scratches: Jake Massie, Ryan Hofer, Logan Day, Dmitri Osipov, Nicky Leivermann and Colin Swoyer.
1ST PERIOD
The Bears opened the scoring on Alex Limoges 9th goal of the season at 17:39 of the first frame. The goal was unassisted.
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 🤏@LimogesAlex gets his ninth of the season! https://t.co/jkPfWcZW9p pic.twitter.com/G9qTmCDwwR
— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
And that was it for the scoring in the first frame. The Bears led in shots 7-5. The Baby Pens were 0 for 1 on the power play while the Bears did not have a man advantage in the first 20 minutes.
2ND PERIOD
The Bears made it 2-0 midway through the second period. Ethen Frank (14) dented the twine at 12:18. Joe Snively (16) and Mike Sgarbossa (25) had the helpers.
Tape. To. Tape. @efrank_98 redirects home his 14th of the season!
🍎Snively
🍏Sgarbossa https://t.co/5U2MDblPeh pic.twitter.com/kHYivb03bz— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
The Bears quickly stretched their lead to 3-0 on Joe Snively‘s 8th goal of the season. It came on the power play at 13:51.
Power-play payback is the best kind, don’t you think? 😏
Snives snaps home his eighth of the season!
🍎Sgarbossa
🍏Vecchione https://t.co/rBgFjFKzWX pic.twitter.com/692JubYXin— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) December 28, 2023
The Bears held the 3-0 lead into the second intermission. Hershey led in shots 16-7 in the second period and 23-12 after two periods. The Bears were 1 for 2 and the Baby Pens 0 for 1 on the power play after two periods.
3RD PERIOD
The Penguins scored their first tally of the night with 8:12 remaining in regulation to make it 3-1. Austin Rueschhoff (5) notched the opening salvo with Taylor Fedun (6) and Joona Koppanen (6) providing the assists.
Here’s a look at Ruesch’s tally pic.twitter.com/kNtyKWhlBj
— WBS Penguins (@WBSPenguins) December 28, 2023
Pierrick Dube added a 6-on-5 empty net goal to restore the Bears three-goal lead with 4:04 remaining in the game.
SHAVINGS
- AHL box score
- Attendance: 10,505
Why did Dubé got a bunch of penalties there were a lot of penalties in the second like. Six at 13:05 2 period I need somebody explain to me what happened
2nd
13:05 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Corey Andonovski , Served by Jagger Joshua Major – Boarding, 5 min PP
13:05 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Corey Andonovski Game misconduct – Boarding, 10 min
13:05 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Corey Andonovski Fighting, 5 min
13:05 Hershey Bears Pierrick Dubé , Served by Ethen Frank Instigating, 2 min
13:05 Hershey Bears Pierrick Dubé Fighting, 5 min
13:05 Hershey Bears Pierrick Dubé Misconduct – Instigating, 10 min
13:30 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Colin White Slashing, 2 min PP
Corey got very mad at Dubé.
After tonight’s TURD in Madison Square Garden …..
Several HBears look enticing as replacements to Caps roster players
With Patch and Bear coming in soon to the Big Club … Why stop there?
Mr. Dube has earned his call up. Even conducted a fight with a WBS Penguin. When’s the last time a Caps player dropped the gloves?
I like Miro the Hero …. but he was a lost little boy in tonight’s NYR game. Hasn’t done much in his Caps “debut” …. More seasoning required, my Siberian friend
And while we’re at it …. TvR. Better than the Bears best D-man? TvR should have a seat, and at least give Al Alexeyev a chance. Plenty of el Stinko D-play in front of Caps goalie tonight. And oh yes, my favorite G35 was POROUS big time. Yuck Vomick Puke
A lot of our prospects need additional seasoning. But again, I keep hearing pro athletes say that they learn more from a defeat than from a win. So, can our Cap prospects learn a lesson from tonight? Or are they just going to erase the tape? I hope that they learn from it. That will give them the some of the seasoning that they need.
When teaching, I always felt my motivated B students were better learners than my lazy A students. Now that they are being given real chances, how motivated are our prospects? Was playing in some NHL games just a reward or was it inspiration? We’ll see. Lots of other Bears waiting in the wings.
The Bears who have played a game for Caps this year include McIlrath, Sgarbosa, Johansen, Snively, Aktell, Miro, and Lapierre (and Shepherd).
The ones I’d like to see get a call-up (for at least a couple of games) in order is Frank, Sutter, Iorio. Frank will be a RFA after this season and will need to clear waivers next year. Want to see if he can play in NHL. Sutter under contract and also not waivers exempt and i want to see if he can replace NAK at 4RW. Iorio is an important prospect and I’d like to see how he measures in NHL for experience and some things to work on.
No interest in giving a game or two to AHL’s leading goal scorer?
Good list but I would certainly add Dube to it.
How many of these would have to clear waivers to go back? If they don’t stay with the Caps, I certainly don’t want to deny them to the Bears.
I hear you guys on Dube. I like him. Could be a great find. I just want to see the others first because of their development cycle and how faster time to Caps contribution.
I do know this. Great to have prospects who can play and happy to have a coach who will play them. Depth creates competition. Competition is good for everyone. but everyone can’t win.
Alex Limoges was facing the boards when Corey slammed into his back boarding him. Alex went down and a trainer came out. Corey left with a towel to his face and the ice crew scrapped two places on the ice which makes me think he was bleeding. He missed the rest of the period.
Dube was the closest Bear so he then attacked Corey and the two had a good tussle. Corey was ejected from the game. Because of the nature of the penalties, others had to go into the box to help serve them even though they didn’t themselves sin. So the Bears lost Dube and Frank.
Play resumed with the sides 4-4 and a Bear player got slashed coming around the net which gave the Bears a 4on3. Snively scored. Rest of the penalty minutes were uneventful.